Articles and News for Aug08
14-year-old CEO makes chemistry a game with 'Elementeo'
$1.8M awarded for metastatic colon cancer research
1 year after Solomon Islands, scientists learn barrier to earthquakes weaker than expected
200 leading experts to attend NJIT's Fifth Annual Math Conference set for May 19-21, 2008 in Newark
2 University of Illinois researchers named HHMI investigators
58th annual Lindau meeting of Nobel laureates: Words of advice to young people
72 new members chosen by Academy
AACR annual meeting showcases developments in understanding and targeting cancers
AGI reports on the price of oil and the US dollar
AGU Journal Highlights -- July 3, 2008
AGU Journal Highlights -- June 11, 2008
AGU Journalism Awards won by Margaret Munro and Dr. Richard Smith
AGU journal highlights -- June 4, 2008
ASBMB taps 8 scientists for top awards
ASPB engages Latin America colleagues at Annual Meeting in Merida, Mexico June 22-25
A Kapitza?Dirac?Talbot?Lau interferometer for highly polarizable molecules
A bird's eye view
A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator
A complex mind
A few holes to fill
A molecular state of correlated electrons in a quantum dot
A new method for generating ultraintense and ultrashort laser pulses
A non-volatile-memory device on the basis of engineered anisotropies in (Ga,Mn)As
A potential sugar fix for tumors
A protein sequence associated with Huntington’s disease may become life-saving vaccine component
A quantum-enhanced prototype gravitational-wave detector
A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons
A strip revealed...and more
A sub-femtosecond stop watch for 'photon finish' races
A tangled web we weave
A testable prediction
A thermodynamic unification of jamming
A transient semimetallic layer in detonating nitromethane
Absinthe uncorked: The 'Green Fairy' was boozy -- but not psychedelic
Accelerometer backpacks aid study of gliding behavior in the 'flying' lemur
Accurate theoretical fits to laser-excited photoemission spectra in the normal phase of high-temperature superconductors
Adaptive optics: Scattered focus
Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality
Advances in C. difficile research
Advil or Excedrin? New model helps predict product choices
Aerodynamics: Four wings good
Al Gore and Tom Stoppard among 2008 Dan David Prize Winners at TAU
Alcohol alters prefrontal cortex activity through ion channel disruption
Algae could one day be major hydrogen fuel source
Algae from the ocean a sustainable energy source of the future
Algebraic charge liquids
All done with mirrors: NIST microscope tracks nanoparticles in 3-D
All-optical injection of ballistic electrical currents in unbiased silicon
American Association for Cancer Research hosts 2008 Annual Meeting
American Chemical Society honors 7 Springer scientists
American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 6, 2008
American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 20, 2008
Ames laboratory physicist develops 'electrifying' theory
An Ikerbasque researcher disentangles the strange behavior of qubits
An off-board quantum point contact as a sensitive detector of cantilever motion
An unexpected thrill
Analysis of quickly stopped Rx orders provides new tool for reducing medical errors
Anatomy of plasma turbulence
Anisotropic behaviours of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under periodic potentials
Answering challenges of life in extreme environments research
Ant guts could pave the way for better drugs
Antarctic ice shelf disintegrating as result of climate change, say scientists
Antidepressants do work in depression while evidence for CBT is poorer say experts
Antimicrobial sutures reduce infections in brain shunt surgery, study finds
Anyonic interferometry and protected memories in atomic spin lattices
Anyons in a weakly interacting system
April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
Arable land can have a negative impact on air quality
Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat
Are existing large-scale simulations of water dynamics wrong?
Are microbes the answer to the energy crisis?
Argonne, DOT open transportation research, computing center
Argonne scientists, collaborators create first superinsulator
Argonne scientists develop techniques for creating molecular movies
Argonne's Crabtree elected to National Academy of Sciences
Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by Japan's Toda Kogyo
Aripiprazole has potential for treating alcohol dependence
Arsenic and new rice
Artificial intelligence boosts science from Mars
Astrophysics: Black is black
Astrophysics: Dust before the storm
Astrophysics: Rings around the lenses
Astute Nanotechnology celebrates first year of success
At ACS' national meeting, global initiative set to tackle water issues
At the synapse: Gene may shed light on neurological disorders
Atomic dark solitons: Quantum canaries learn to fly
Atomic force microscopy reveals liquids adjust viscosity when confined, shaken
Atomic physics: Cold gases venture into Flatland
Attoscience: An attosecond stopwatch
Attosecond angular streaking
Attosecond physics: Ultrafast goes ultralong
Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytelling
Avalon Pharmaceuticals names lead development candidate in beta-catenin inhibitor program
BP funds scholarship for University of Houston to help fill industry ranks
Back to a space future
Beat the cycle of preference
Beating the channel capacity limit for linear photonic superdense coding
Bend, bounce and relax...
Best code for disease detection, bar none
Best practice for engineering science faculties
Beyond the hype
Big Dave's last stand
Bilateral agreement to commercialize cargo screening technology
Biophysics: Cell commuters avoid delays
Biophysics: Cell dipoles feel their way
Bitter orange SRMs: Tools for product analysis/quality
Black holes have simple feeding habits
Blocked brain enzyme decreases appetite and promotes weight loss
Boeing's Phantom Works arrives in Australia
Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms
Boost for 'green plastics' from plants
Bose?Einstein condensation in magnetic insulators
Bose?Hubbard optical lattice: Peak on a peak
Breakdown of the adiabatic limit in low-dimensional gapless systems
Breaking news: Study revives Olympic prospects for amputee sprinter
Breast cancer more aggressive among obese women
Bridging length scales in colloidal liquids and interfaces from near-critical divergence to single particles
British dignitaries to honor Sen.Domenici's dedication to scientific collaboration
Brown opens Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation
Brown to host conference on advances in neurotechnology
Business of drug development on verge of great change
By amplifying cell death signals, scientists make precancerous cells self-destruct
CAPHOSOL relieves oral mucositis and improves quality-of-life in cancer patients
CCNY researchers demonstrate effectiveness of contrast agent Cytate in detectcing prostate cancer
CERN announces start-up date for LHC
CSHL scientists correlate enzyme expression levels with chemotherapy drug response
CSIRO astronomers to join 'private data highway' across US
CSIRO unveils a new class of fatty acids
CSI: Milky Way team works scene of dead star
Calpis' AmealPeptide lowers blood pressure in 2 placebo-controlled trials
Caltech astrophysicist wins 1 of first Kavli Prizes
Caltech engineers build mini drug-producing biofactories in yeast
Cancer drug shows promise against graft vs. host disease
Carbon Disclosure Project, ICLEI partner to help US cities report local climate actions, emissions
Carbon nanotube measurements: latest in NIST 'how-to' series
Carbon nanotubes: Old nanotubes, new tricks
Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'
Carbon nanotubes outperform copper nanowires as interconnects
Carnegie Mellon develops computer model to study cell membrane dynamics
Carnegie Mellon researchers create invisibiity cloak
Carnegie Mellon's Nadine Aubry, colleague Pushpendra Singh develop new model
Carnegie's Russell Hemley elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh
Cavity QED: Signs of anharmonicity
Chaotic dynamics: Stuck with the flow
Charcot-marie-tooth disease research funding
Charge fractionalization in quantum wires
Charge inversion accompanies DNA condensation by multivalent ions
Charge-density-wave origin of cuprate checkerboard visualized by scanning tunnelling microscopy
Charged-impurity scattering in graphene
Charge-order-maximized momentum-dependent superconductivity
Chassapis and team awarded $3 million GK-12 grant from NSF for multiscale research
Chemical engineering researchers identify biofilms that cause infections
Chemical society to honor 'Heroes of Chemistry' during national meeting
Chemist wins national award for contributions in surface chemistry
Chile's Chaiten volcano one of scores of active volcanoes in region, says CU-Boulder professor
China becomes a physics powerhouse
Chips are down as Manchester makes protein scanning breakthrough
Clean diesels
Clemson bioengineer wins prestigious Early Career Award
Climate change
Closed circle
Clumps of red and white blood cells may contribute to sickle cell disease
Coarsening of granular segregation patterns in quasi-two-dimensional tumblers
Coherent control of attosecond emission from aligned molecules
Coherent dynamics of plasma mirrors
Coherent population trapping of an electron spin in a single negatively charged quantum dot
Coherent superposition of laser-driven soft-X-ray harmonics from successive sources
Collimation of sound assisted by acoustic surface waves
Colossal magnetocapacitance and scale-invariant dielectric response in phase-separated manganites
Columbus camera captures first views of Earth
Combating secondary infections in clinics
Commencement 2008: Student innovation could improve data storage, magnetic sensors
Commercialization of air traffic control greatly improves performance
Compact X-ray sources: Towards a table-top free-electron laser
Computer simulations strongly support new theory of Earth's core
Computing: Quantum to classical and back
Condensed matter: An insulator with a twist
Cone snails and plants used to develop oral drug for pain
Conference registration: how people react to a deadline
Congressional R&D Caucus co-chairs join scientists, engineers and graduate students
Continuous-variable quantum cryptography using two-way quantum communication
Controlled dephasing of electrons by non-gaussian shot noise
Controlling most atoms now possible
Copper nanowires grown by new process create long-lasting displays
Cosmic bubbles and demonic exercise
Cosmic rays: Try this at home
Cosmology: Inflation alive and well
'Cross fire' from the brain makes patients tremble
Cross-sectional imaging of spin injection into a semiconductor
Cruising through molecular bound-state manifolds with radiofrequency
Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter
DFG introduces Reinhart Koselleck Projects
DFG welcomes decision on stem cell research by German parliament
DOE grant funds solar energy project
Daljit Ahluwalia, acclaimed math chair at NJIT, to be honored
Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically
'Death protein' research secures funding for UCF scientists
Decade of the Mind symposium in Iowa to emphasize need for $4 billion in federal support
Defining gene's role may lead to prevention of dangerous corn toxin
Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer
Dental chair a possible source of neurotoxic mercury waste
Desert power: A solar renaissance
Detecting dangerous chemicals with lasers, exploring the brain's circuitry with light and more
Dirac charge dynamics in graphene by infrared spectroscopy
Discovery of an excited pair state in superfluid 3He
Discovery of most recent supernova in our galaxy
Dislocations and vortices in pair-density-wave superconductors
Disorder enables extreme sensitivity in piezoelectric materials
Domoic acid from toxic algal blooms may cause seizures in California sea lions
Drugs like aspirin could reduce breast cancer and help existing sufferers
Drugs to inhibit blood vessel growth show promise in rat model of deadly brain tumor
Dynamic light diffusion, three-dimensional Anderson localization and lasing in inverted opals
Dynamical synapses causing self-organized criticality in neural networks
Dynamics of cell orientation
Dynamin drug discovery team win prestigious international epilepsy grant
ECNP launches research grant for young scientists
EC infuses Serbian nuclear relic cleanup with critical donation
EPFL Research Day 2008, in the presence of Al Gore
ETH Zurich competence center ESC introduces energy strategy
Early exposure to common weed killer impairs amphibian development
Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids
Eating and weight gain not necessarily linked, study shows
Echo in the mountain: Sonar technology for application in tunnel excavation
Eclipses again prove key for Einstein
'Edible optics' could make food safer
Efficient coupling of photons to a single molecule and the observation of its resonance fluorescence
Efficient state transfer in an ultracold dense gas of heteronuclear molecules
Egg P bodies protect maternal gene messages
Egg hunt from there to here
Einstein was right, McGill astrophysicists say
Electrical spin-injection into silicon from a ferromagnetic metal/tunnel barrier contact
Electrically driven single-electron spin resonance in a slanting Zeeman field
Electric-field-controlled spin reversal in a quantum dot with ferromagnetic contacts
Electrohydrodynamic tip streaming and emission of charged drops from liquid cones
Elements of style
Elevated biomarkers predict risk for prostate cancer recurrence
Emergency links: NIST identifies 'sweet spot' for radios in tunnels
Emission reduction assumptions for carbon dioxide overly optimistic, study says
Energy Crossroads conference April 30 and May 1 at Stanford University
Energy harvesting: Rubbed the right way
Engineering students: Headset muffles loud, unnerving MRI noises
Engineers demonstrate a new type of optical tweezer
Engineers demonstrate first room-temperature semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz radiation
Enhanced reaction kinetics in biological cells
Entangling independent photons by time measurement
Eribulin mesylate demonstrated anti-tumor activity in patients with advanced breast cancer
Esoteric no more
Europe to build state of the art laboratory
Europeans unite to tap early universe for secrets of fundamental physic
Euroscience Open Forum 2008: 1 month to go
Even low levels of air pollution may pose stroke risk
Everything is Particles
Evolution equation for quantum entanglement
Expect the unexpected
Experiments and multiscale simulations of laser propagation through ignition-scale plasmas
Experts tackle shipment issues for beneficial radiation sources
Experts to discuss sleep science and the health risks of sleep disorders in Baltimore this June
Experts to provide peek of Smithsonian soils exhibit
Experts will analyze the nutrition and health relationship from pregnancy to adolescence
FDA deadlines may compromise drug safety by rushing approval
FEBS Letters Structured Digital Abstracts experiment
Failed HIV drug gets second chance with addition of gold nanoparticles
Families shed light on likely causative gene for Alzheimer's
Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously
Fatal mine collapse covered 50 acres
Feel the force
Finally, the 'planet' in planetary nebulae?
Findings a step toward making new optical materials
Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity
First early-detection blood test for Parkinson's shows promise
First full 3-D view of cracks growing in steel
First-class protein crystals thanks to weightlessness on earth
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy
Flipping fluctuations
Florida Tech student earns first place in national science competition
Flow diagram of the metal?insulator transition in two dimensions
Flu vaccines can reduce respiratory problems by up to 3/4
Fluid Dynamics: The invisible jet
Fly me to the Moon?
Focus on planetary nebulae and spiral galaxies
Focusing capillary jets close to the continuum limit
Food writer wins prestigious ACS journalism award
For some who have lost their sense of smell, a once popular asthma drug could help
Forward step in forecasting global warming
Fossils found in Tibet by FSU geologist revise history of elevation, climate
Fractional charge and quantized current in the quantum spin Hall state
Fractional exchange statistics: A home for anyon?
Fractional quantum Hall effect: A game of five halves
Fractional quantum Hall effect in a quantum point contact at filling fraction 5/2
Friction without contact
Frog in a bucket
Fruit fly phlebotomy holds neuroscience promise
'Fuel for thought' on transport sector challenges
Fuel from cellulose
Future returns
GKSS membranes reduce air pollution in Beijing
GLAST ready to go!
GOCE Earth explorer satellite to look at the Earth's surface and core
GSA South-Central Section meeting in Hot Springs next week
Gate-induced quantum-confinement transition of a single dopant atom in a silicon FinFET
Geisinger piloting innovative laboratory specimen processing instrument
Geisinger study: Use of digital health records improve health of the elderly
Gene therapy reduces cocaine use in rats
Generation of intense continuum extreme-ultraviolet radiation by many-cycle laser fields
Genes may make some people more prone to anxiety
Geothermics now published by Elsevier
Geotimes investigates Iraq's oil prospects
Giant phonon-induced conductance in scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of gate-tunable graphene
Glowing films developed by UC San Diego chemists reveal traces of explosives
Goddard scientists receive Lindsay Award for black hole research
Going from ulcers to cancer
Golden nanocrown
Golden wheat 'greens' Kenya's drylands
Gone, but not forgotten
Good vibrations
Graphene gazing gives glimpse of foundations of universe
Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away
Gravitational wave detectors: Squeezing up the sensitivity
Gravity wave 'smoking gun' fizzles, says Case Western Reserve University physics researchers
Growth hormone found to have new role in development of brain's smell center
Guilt on their hands: tiny 'tags' could help to solve and deter gun crime
Gyro-resonant electron acceleration at Jupiter
Handheld DNA detector
Health risks after cessation of postmenopausal hormone therapy
Healthy people and enhancement drugs
Heavy electrons and the symplectic symmetry of spin
Hebrew University scientists named fellows of American Academy
Here we go...
High-flying electrons may provide new test of quantum theory
High-speed science
High-temperature superconductivity: Fits and starts
History of quantum mechanics: The path to agreement
'Hot' oxygen atoms on titanium dioxide motivated by more than just temperature
How pre-melting on surrounding interfaces broadens solid?liquid phase transitions
How the atmospheres of Mars and Venus are affected by carbon monoxide
How to build a critical mind
How to tip the scale
Hs and OHs in the spotlight
Huge hole in the cosmos disappears
Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology
Hybrid materials: Exciting interdisciplinary field offering future solutions for industry
Hybrid single-electron transistor as a source of quantized electric current
Hydrogels provide scaffolding for growth of bone cells
Hyperentanglement: Breaking the communication barrier
Hyperviscous fluids: Better treatment for severe blood loss
IEEE Fellow first woman to receive highest award in engineering profession
INL-led team achieves nuclear fuel performance milestone
If your first cigarette gave you a buzz and you now smoke, a gene may be to blame
Imaging single atoms in a three-dimensional array
Imaging spontaneous currents in superconducting arrays of ?-junctions
Imaging the two gaps of the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CuO6+x
Immunotherapy: enlisting the immune system to fight cancer
Immunotherapy in high-risk pediatric sarcomas shows promising response
Impact of long- and short-range disorder on the metallic behaviour of two-dimensional systems
Imports from Latin America may help US meet energy goals, study finds
Improved governance needed to realize nanotech's benefits
Improved ion mobility is key to new hydrogen storage compound
Impurity-stabilized solid 4He below the solidification pressure of pure helium
In Vietnam, alongside progress, a battle for life
In blood vessel stents, innovative materials allow better control, delivery of gene therapy
In situ doping control of the surface of high-temperature superconductors
In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test
Incoherent non-Fermi-liquid scattering in a Kondo lattice
Injection of harmonics generated in gas in a free-electron laser providing intense and coherent extreme-ultraviolet light
Innovative antennae may signal a 'new wave' in health care provision
Inside-out evacuation of transitional protoplanetary discs by the magneto-rotational instability
Integrating restoration and conservation within the ecosystem approach
Interfering with the Global Positioning System
International team of scientists discover clue to delay of life on Earth
Into the trees
Iron banded worms drying out of blood could be linked to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
Irreversible reorganization in a supercooled liquid originates from localized soft modes
Is the outer Solar System chaotic?
Itinerant to localized transition of f electrons in the antiferromagnetic superconductor UPd2Al3
It's just a phase...
John Wheeler: Three ages of man
Johns Hopkins researcher leads international effort to create 'proteinpedia'
Joint research: Probing the mysteries of a surprisingly tough hydrogel
Journal of Ultrasound In Medicine features bioeffects consensus report
KAUST announces academic excellence alliance partnership with Imperial College London
Kalyon wins Society of Plastics Engineers' 2008 Research Award
Kansas City builder creates Health Home
Kavli Prize: Science on all scales
Kent State awarded more than $14M to study liquid crystals and soft matter
Keyhole coherent diffractive imaging
LLNL's prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance
Lab in a drop
Lab study shows methadone breaks resistance in untreatable forms of leukemia
Large binocular telescope achieves first binocular light
Laser-driven fusion: Incoherent light on the road to ignition
Laser?plasma interactions: Fast electrons on a wire
Laws, power laws and statistics
Leading researchers honored for progress in cancer prevention, detection and treatment
Learning from bacteria
Leicester medical team announces 'predictor' for pregnant women who may have miscarriages
Let there be light?
Licorice extract provides new treatment option for canker sores
Likely cause of postpartum blues and depression identified
Limited transparency in federal nanotech research may hamper development
Liquid?solid-like transition in quasi-one-dimensional driven granular media
Listening for the cosmic symphony: New SU supercomputer will help scientists listen for black holes
Little evidence for dynamic divergences in ultraviscous molecular liquids
Livermore researchers use carbon nanotubes for molecular transport
Localization and loss of coherence in molecular double-slit experiments
Long-term study of middle-aged mice shows
Louisiana Tech researchers feature drug reformulation in prestigious journal
Louisiana Tech students win first in 11 categories at civil engineering conference
Lunar surface: Shades of grey
MEDEA+ Noblanc award highlights improvements in microelectronics
MIT: Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery
MIT-led teams unravel heparin death mystery
MIT's PANTHER sensor quickly detects pathogens
MSU biofilms research helps set standards for everyday products
MSU professor earns Bowditch Award for work on hypertension
Magnetic flux periodicity of h/e in superconducting loops
Magnetic tunnel junctions: Spin-torque measured up
Major 'missed' biochemical pathway emerges as important in virtually all cells
Make your own microfluidic device with new kit from U-M
Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST
Making sure the wonder materials don't become the wonder pollutant
Malignant tumor or benign cyst?
Manufactured Buckyballs don't harm microbes that clean the environment
Many stroke, heart attack patients may not benefit from aspirin
May 2008 GEOLOGY media highlights
McMaster University engineering professor receives Humboldt Research Award
Measurement of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin?orbit magnetic fields
Measurement of the spin-transfer-torque vector in magnetic tunnel junctions
Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals
Measuring nanomechanical motion with a microwave cavity interferometer
Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention
Mechanism of blood clot elasticity revealed in high definition
Media highlights for February in Biophysical Journal
Media highlights in the March 1 issue of Biophysical Journal
Media star
Medicare Part D beneficiaries may pay a price for poor knowledge of their Part D benefits
Memory-built-in quantum teleportation with photonic and atomic qubits
Meningitis vaccine study gets £200,000 boost
Michael J. Fox Foundation PD Therapeutics Conference
Michael J. Fox Foundation awards $2.4M for validation of therapeutic targets for Parkinson's
Micro and Nano Scale Characterization of Fibers
Micro-origami: USC folds up micrometer-scale 'voxels' for drug delivery
Microsoft and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev announce agreement
Mike Lazaridis donates additional $50M to Perimeter Institute
Milky Way's giant black hole awoke from slumber 300 years ago
Mimic molecules to protect against plague
Mini-donut catches chloride ions
Mining for dark matter
Moderate prenatal exposure to alcohol and stress in monkeys can cause touch sensitivity
Modern physics is critical to global warming research
Molecular hula hoop
Molecules that changed the world
Monash researcher receives prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister's award
Monash team learns from nature to split water
Montana State University picked as home for Wind Applications Center
Moores UCSD Cancer Center study links vitamin D, type 1 diabetes
More solid than solid: A potential hydrogen-storage compound
Moss protein plays role in Alzheimer's disease
Most powerful laser in the world fires up
Mouse study: When it comes to living longer, it's better to go hungry than go running
Multiple Sclerosis: new MRI contrast medium enables early diagnosis in animal model
Munich researchers discover key allergy gene
Mustard -- hot stuff for natural pest control
Mystery behind the strongest creature in the world
NASA'S GLAST launch successful
NASA grant funds space radiation research
NASA selects 3 research fellows for GLAST mission
NC State physics advance leads to a better understanding of optics at the atomic scale
NIST, Army researchers pave the way for anthrax spore standards
NIST micro sensor and micro fridge make cool pair
NJIT applauds students for studies on brain injury, glaucoma and more
NJIT awards ceremony to feature notable physicist
NJIT doctoral students receive recognition at poster competition
NJIT start-up company NeuroTrax named best in show
NRL scientists produce carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymeric resins
NYU Langone Medical Center's tip sheet to the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2008
NYU researchers demonstrate activity of mebendazole in metastatic melanoma
Names of inaugural Kavli Prize winners revealed
Nano sculptures in gold
'Nanodrop' test tubes created with a flip of a switch
Nanoengineered barrier invented to protect plastic electronics from water degradation
Nano-optics: Quantum light switch
'Nanosculpture' could enable new types of heat pumps and energy converters
Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe
Nano-sized technology has super-sized effect on tumors
Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors
Nanotubes could help study retrovirus transmission between human cells
Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers
National Institutes of Health award Williams professor $217,710 research grant
Nature Conservancy study raises major questions on biofuels
Needle-size device created to track tumors, radiation dose
Neural cell transplants may help those with Parkinson's disease
Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium announces increased journal participation
Neutrino Physics: Solar probe
Neutron stars: A magnetar by another name
New 3-D test method for biomaterials 'flat out' faster
New NIST detector can 'see' single neutrons over broad range
New OLED encapsulation method reduces water intrusion and increases lifetime
New alliance builds low carbon future
New approach to measuring carbon in forests
New book tutors future presidents and public on science behind the headlines
New cell-based sensors sniff out danger like bloodhounds
New cements for vertebral lesions
New chemical tool kit manipulates mitochondria, reveals insights into drug toxicity
New data show benefit of finasteride in preventing prostate cancer
New data to help with Afghanistan's natural resources and hazards assessments
New discoveries from Harvard and Baylor get to the heart of cardiovascular disease
New discoveries, new labs highlight international Canadian Light Source meeting
New formula for combating the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
New guest at ESA's test center: The Herschel telescope
New metamaterials that bend light backwards bring invisibility cloaks 1 step closer
New nanotechnology television series does 'sweat the small stuff'
New nanotube sensor can continuously monitor minute amounts of insulin
New organic molecule in space
New report looks at the state of the North American environment
New source for biofuels discovered
New star systems first of their kind
New study examines the validity of epo testing
New study finds adverse effects of estrogen replacement therapy are related to the dose
New study reveals brain cell mechanism of alcohol dependence
New superconductors present new mysteries, possibilities
New test makes cheating with drugs in sports easier to detect
New text highlights role of microorganisms in alternative energy development
New treatment for hepatitis C
New vaccine approach prevents/reverses diabetes in lab study at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
New whale detection buoys will help ships take the right way through marine habitat
News and features abound at ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, April 6-10
News tips from ACS Nano
No-Bell announcement
Nobel Prize 2007: Fert and Grünberg
Noise autocorrelation spectroscopy with coherent Raman scattering
Nonlinear optics: Quasiparticles undressed
Nonlinear spectroscopy of photons bound to one atom
Northwestern chemists take gold, mass-produce Beijing Olympic logo
Nothing stops an expert in the art of living
Nothing ventured
Novel toxin receptor discovered for ulcer-causing stomach pathogen
Now that's cool
Nuclear astrophysics: Among the super brilliant
Nuclear astrophysics: The first 50 years
OPEC accepts no substitute
ORNL demonstrates super-sensitive explosives detector
OSU students build and launch a sensor into space
OSU technologies funded for development
Observation of Bogoliubov excitations in exciton-polariton condensates
Observation of Landau levels of Dirac fermions in graphite
Observation of electron?hole puddles in graphene using a scanning single-electron transistor
Observation of energetic electrons within magnetic islands
Observation of quantum-measurement backaction with an ultracold atomic gas
Observation of the optical spin Hall effect
Onwards and upwards
Optical antennas based on coupled nanoholes in thin metal films
Optical conductivity and the correlation strength of high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors
Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot
Optically mapping the electronic structure of coupled quantum dots
Optomechanics: Push towards the quantum limit
Oscillations and interactions of dark and dark?bright solitons in Bose?Einstein condensates
Outstanding German-Polish scientific cooperation
PATH MVI and SBRI to accelerate malaria vaccine search by expanding human challenge tests
PET confirmed as valuable cancer diagnostic and disease-staging tool
Pain receptor in brain may be linked to learning and memory
Pairing fluctuations in the pseudogap state of copper-oxide superconductors probed by the Josephson effect
Pan American Congress on Plants & BioEnergy
Particle physics: A win?win situation
Pattern formation: Watch your step
Peculiar many-body effects revealed in the spectroscopy of highly charged quantum dots
Penn State microbial fuel cell scientist named KAUST Investigator
Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures
Persistent man-made chemical pollutants found in deep-sea octopods and squids
Peter J. McGuire, MB BCh, is awarded the 2008-2009 Genzyme/ACMGF Clinical Genetics Fellowship
Phantom parent molecule of important class of chemical compounds isolated for first time
Phase transitions: A complex view of criticality
Phoenix mission to Mars will search for climate clues
Physicists: After 30 years of study, rare particle confirms prediction
Physicists and engineers search for new dimension
Physics 2.0
Physics breakthroughs on tap at New Orleans conference
Physics for development
Physics is dead, long live physics!
Pinch points and Kasteleyn transitions in kagome ice
Planetary atmospheres: Stormy weather
Plasma astrophysics: Acceleration of killer electrons
Plasmonics: Beaming light into the nanoworld
Policing cells demand ID to tell friend from foe, say University of Pennsylvania cell engineers
Populist quantum theory
Portable device effective in zapping away migraine pain
Post brain injury: New nerve cells originate from neural stem cells
Potatoes may hold key to Alzheimer's treatment
Potential treatment for TB solves puzzle
Potential treatments from cryptic genes
Potential viral therapy weapon for difficult cancers is safe and effective in study
Powerful superconductor is in a class all its own
Prednisone tablets less variable than marketed drugs
Premiere for Europe: Jules Verne refuels the ISS
Prenatal drinking, environmental enrichment: effects on neurotrophins are independent of each other
Prescription costs rise more than 6 times when patients reach 65 says study of 5M people
Presence of certain antibodies signals healthier teeth and gums
Princeton scientists spy an electron dance
Principles and applications of compact laser?plasma accelerators
Probing quantum and thermal noise in an interacting many-body system
Probing vortex-core dynamics using current-induced resonant excitation of a trapped domain wall
Process tomography of quantum memory in a Josephson-phase qubit coupled to a two-level state
Professor Toh-Ming Lu named fellow of the Materials Research Society
Promising new nanotechnology for spinal cord injury
Protein data bank archives 50,000th molecule structure
Protein fibrils as alternative plastics?
Prototype terahertz imager promises biochem advances
Purdue researchers propose way to incorporate deforestation into climate change treaty
Quantitative measurement of voltage dependence of spin-transfer torque in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions
Quantized vortices in an exciton?polariton condensate
Quantum communication: Coherence by measurement
Quantum critical behaviour in the superfluid density of strongly underdoped ultrathin copper oxide films
Quantum criticality in heavy-fermion metals
Quantum dots: An optical point of view
Quantum dots: Time to get the nukes out
Quantum electronics: Hybrid electron control
Quantum gravity: Beyond the screen of time
Quantum information processing: Move around the clock
Quantum interference of photon pairs from two remote trapped atomic ions
Quantum interference of tunnel trajectories between states of different spin length in a dimeric molecular nanomagnet
Quantum leaps in small steps
Quantum magnetism and criticality
Quantum many-body physics: 2D or not 2D?
Quantum mechanical complementarity probed in a closed-loop Aharonov?Bohm interferometer
Quantum mechanics: Dynamics of entanglement
Quantum molecular dynamics: The physics of explosive chemistry
Quantum non-demolition detection of strongly correlated systems
Quantum spin liquids: A flood or a trickle?
Quantum this and quantum that
Quasicrystal mystery unraveled with computer simulation
Quasiparticle interference and superconducting gap in Ca2?xNaxCuO2Cl2
Queen's develops safe 'green' decontamination method
Quest for better treatment for effects of menopause
RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea
RFID engineers and researchers to convene in Las Vegas for 2nd IEEE International RFID Conference
RIT team simulates first merger of 3 black holes on a supercomputer
RNA engineering to combat series of illnesses wins Kaye Award for Hebrew University dean
Radiation for health
Radicals shake up molecules in a tug o' war
Random organization: Ordered chaos
Random organization in periodically driven systems
Relatively interesting news
Relic topological defects from brane annihilation simulated in superfluid 3He
Research measures movement of nanomaterials in simple model food chain
Researcher helping to pioneer medical therapy for Fragile X Syndrome presents latest findings
Researchers block damage to fetal brain following maternal alcohol consumption
Researchers bridge the 'terahertz gap' with new tunable metamaterial
Researchers catch ion channels in their opening act
Researchers confirm discovery of Earth's inner, innermost core
Researchers control growth rate of replacement blood vessels, tissues
Researchers create the first thermal nanomotor in the world
Researchers develop first transgenic monkey model of Huntington's disease
Researchers discover molecular basis of a form of muscular dystrophy
Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness and strength when exposed to liquids
Researchers find cancer-inhibiting compound under the sea
Researchers reveal insights into hidden world of protein folding
Researchers reveal structure of protein that repairs damage to cancer cells
Researchers 'see' structure of open nicotinic acetylcholine ion channels
Researchers take step toward creating quantum computers using entangled photons in optical fibers
Researchers visualize complex pigment mixtures in living cells
Resolved-sideband cooling of a micromechanical oscillator
Reverse age discrimination
'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources
Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
Risky manager
Robotics research: Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities
Rocky water source
Roll with it, take your time
Rutgers center sparks 'liquid bandage,' a new frontline wound treatment
Rutgers research reveals how deadly food poisoning and bioterrorism toxins could be tamed
Rutgers researchers show how the brain can protect against cancer
SNM congratulates NOPR and its supporting organizations on successful conclusion of project
Satellite observations of separator-line geometry of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection
Satellites take sustainability to new heights
Scaling strong-field interactions towards the classical limit
Scanning probe spectroscopy: Probing dopants at the atomic level
Scanning-probe spectroscopy of semiconductor donor molecules
Science for the citizen
Scientists aim to boost world energy supplies -- with microbes!
Scientists aim to unlock deep-sea 'secrets' of Earth's crust
Scientists demonstrate the sharpest measurement of ice crystals in clouds
Scientists discover that protons partner with neutrons more often than with other protons
Scientists find giant ring encircling exotic dead star
Scientists find how neural activity spurs blood flow in the brain
Scientists find mercury threatens next generation of loons
Scientists make chemical cousin of DNA for use as new nanotechnology building block
Scientists search for answers from the carbon in the clouds
Scientists set out to measure how we perceive naturalness
Scientists sneak a peek under the veil of superconductivity
Scientists successfully treat new mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease
Screening the herbal pharmacy
Sea salt worsens coastal air pollution: study
Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics
Self-similarity in ultrafast nonlinear optics
Seniors with type 2 diabetes may experience memory declines immediately after eating unhealthy meal
September Geology and GSA Today media highlights
Sharp peaks in the momentum distribution of bosons in optical lattices in the normal state
Sharp tactics
Shpyrko receives APS organization's Young Investigator Award
Sierra Nevada rose to current height earlier than thought, say Stanford geologists
Simulating a quantum magnet with trapped ions
Single-atom gating of quantum-state superpositions
Single-celled bacterium works 24-7
Single-molecule detection: Identification without labels
Single-photon bus connecting spin-wave quantum memories
Singlet?triplet physics and shell filling in carbon nanotube double quantum dots
Sisyphus cooling and amplification by a superconducting qubit
Size-specific cracking shakes
Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice
Slowing light to speed data: USC Viterbi School wins $4.3M photonics IT contract
'Smart' materials get smarter with ability to better control shape and size
Smokers with lung disease need more than 'brief' intervention
Social dynamics: Emergence of language
Solar wind: Thar she blows
Sophisticated soil analysis for improved land use
Sounding out Congo Red
Sounding out heart problems automatically
Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses, intensity of treatment
Soy compound may halt spread of prostate cancer
Space exploration: Boldly gone
Space science simulation at UNH now better, faster, cheaper
Special relativity: A matter of time
Specialists in drug discovery and development convene
Spectral weight transfer in the integer quantum Hall effect and its consequences
Spin blockade and lifetime-enhanced transport in a few-electron Si/SiGe double quantum dot
Spin control: New technique sorts nanotubes by length
Spin dynamics in the pseudogap state of a high-temperature superconductor
Spin qubits: A host with many facets
Spin ratchets: A one-way street for spin current
Spin-glass order induced by dynamic frustration
Spinning, rotating, losing
Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets
Spintronics: Silicon takes a spin
Sputnik, space and me
Stabilization of a purely dipolar quantum gas against collapse
Stanford Bio-X researchers use needle-thin probe to get first look at working muscle fiber
Stanford researchers hear the sound of quantum drums
Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells
Statistical mechanics: Crackling crossover
Statistics are insufficient for study of proteins' signal system
Stellar astronomy: Phenomenal weather
Stellar still births
Stevens chemists identify compounds to lure nutria, a rat-like pest ravaging Gulf Coast wetlands
'Sticky nanotubes' hold key to future technologies
Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2008
Stressed seaweed contributes to cloudy coastal skies, study suggests
String cosmology: Cosmic defects in the lab
String theory: Stringlish lessons
Strong correlations make high-temperature superconductors robust against disorder
Structural biology spin-out tackles major diseases
Structure reveals how cells 'sugar-coat' proteins
Study finds Chinese food good for your heart
Study finds new properties in non-magnetic materials
Study recommends development of standards for pediatric doses in nuclear medicine
Studying volcanoes with balloons
Stunt doubles: Ultracold atoms could replicate the electron 'jitterbug'
Substance in red wine found to keep hearts young
Successful series of measurements in Arctic sea ice
Sullivan wins NSF Career Award for research on therapeutic drug carriers
Sun's corona is both hot and kinky
Superconducting qubits: Atomic physics with a circuit
Superconductivity: A celebration of pairs
Superconductivity: Beyond convention
Superconductivity: Bring on the real resonance
Superconductivity: Has lightning struck twice?
Superconductivity: Importance of fluctuations
Superconductivity and quantum criticality in the heavy-fermion system ?-YbAlB4
Superconductors: The electron shatters
Superfluid dynamics: Vortices on the scales
Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed
Suprafroth in type-I superconductors
Surface heating of wire plasmas using laser-irradiated cone geometries
Surface physics: Electron wrangling in quantum corrals
Survival of the fittest: even cancer cells follow the laws of evolution
Switchyard for single electrons
Symmetry of large physical systems implies independence of subsystems
Symposium on energy research highlights future challenges, opportunities
Synchrotron light unveils oil in ancient Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan
Synergy between biology and physics drives cell-imaging technology
TOP AIAA awards to be presented at space 2008 conference
Taking the temperature of the no-fly zone
Talking the talk
Taming molecular beams
Target support for young scientists, says panel/Mote
Telescope embedded in glasses lens promises to make driving easier for visually impaired
Tell me by the way I walk
Test of relativistic time dilation with fast optical atomic clocks at different velocities
Testing quantum correlations versus single-particle properties within Leggett?s model and beyond
Testosterone replacement theraphy beneficial in men 60 and older
That extra dimension
The bombardier beetle, power venom and spray technologies
The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet
The chatter of 100,000 voices
The conflict of reward in depression
The drifting star
The energization of relativistic electrons in the outer Van Allen radiation belt
The final frontier?
The law of accelerating returns
The method of science
The one-dimensional Wigner crystal in carbon nanotubes
The philanthropic principle
The puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on Venus
The trouble with hybrids
The unpaid debt
Theatre: Entangled stage
Theoretical neuroscience: How to build a critical mind
Thermodynamic properties of a spin-1/2 spin-liquid state in a ?-type organic salt
Thermodynamic signature of growing amorphous order in glass-forming liquids
Thermodynamics: Limited adiabaticity
This issue
Three-body interactions with cold polar molecules
Three-dimensional imaging of magnetic fields with polarized neutrons
Tinkering with time
Tipsheet for June issue of BSSA
To a fault: the bottom line on earthquakes
Too much technology may be killing beneficial bacteria
'Top secret' technology to help US swimmers trim times at Beijing Olympics
Topological order: How spin splits the electron
Towards fault-tolerant quantum computing with trapped ions
Towards the zero-surface-tension limit in granular fingering instability
Toxic to aliens -- but key to health of planet
Tracking your carbon footprint
Transitions in focus
Trap and zap: Harnessing the power of light to pattern surfaces on the nanoscale
Treating SSRI-resistant depression
Treatment with an anti-psychotic drug found to cause changes in metabolism earlier than expected
Triplet supercurrents in clean and disordered half-metallic ferromagnets
True or false
True properties of carbon nanotubes measured
Tunable narrowband terahertz emission from mastered laser?electron beam interaction
Tunable scaling behaviour observed in Barkhausen criticality of a ferromagnetic film
Two-dimensional transport and transfer of a single atomic qubit in optical tweezers
Two-photon probe of the Jaynes?Cummings model and controlled symmetry breaking in circuit QED
Two-proton radioactivity: Caught in the act
UAB study shows investigational drug may treat biliary cancers
UAF to host Eighth Conference of Arctic Parliamentarians
UCLA and biotech company develop first blood test to measure key hormone that regulates iron
UCSB's Nakamura wins Prince of Asturias Award
UC Davis researcher leads climate-change discovery
UC San Diego launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine to accelerate health care tech
UC San Diego researchers could help US military thwart explosive threats
UC San Diego researchers target tumors with tiny 'nanoworms'
UC Santa Barbara chemist goes nano with CoQ10
UC Santa Barbara professor awarded prestigious 2008 Dirac Medal
UC biology prof traces his roots to the first Earth Day
UD astronomers coordinating international observatories in white-dwarf watch
UGA gets $2.5 million in grants to study plants to make biofuels
UGA research may lead to safer, more effective gene therapy
UGA researchers discover mechanism that explains how cancer enzyme winds up on ends of chromosomes
UMass Medical School researcher Victor Ambros receives Gairdner Award, Franklin Medal
UNC awarded grant to improve understanding of chemical effects on environment, health
USP Chief Science Officer Darrell Abernethy to receive ACCP Distinguished Service Award
USP Convention and Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission sign Memorandum of Understanding
USP headquarters named Best Biotech